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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 30

to be Members of the Local Cattle Board for the of his appointments as a Member of the Licensing
District of County Cook; and also to appoint Court for the District of City of Nelson, and a
Visiting Justice to the Prison at Nelson.

JAMES WOODBINE JOHNSON
to be the Chairman of the said Board.
THOMAS DICK.

Clerk of Licensing Court appointed.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 30th March, 1880.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint
ARTHUR CHILLAS HENDERSON, Esq.,
to be Clerk of the Licensing Court for the District
of Campbelltown, vice Sergeant Charles Routledge.
THOMAS DICK.

Certificated Accountants in Bankruptcy appointed.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 30th March, 1880.
HIS Honor Mr. Justice Richmond has appointed
EDWARD HENRY POWER, of Auckland,
and Mr. District Judge Hardcastle has appointed
WILLIAM GORDON ROBINSON, of Foxton,
to be Certificated Accountants in Bankruptcy.
THOMAS DICK.

Appointments in Survey Department.

General Survey Office,
Wellington, 22nd March, 1880.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
make the following appointments in the Survey
Department of New Zealand :-

THOMAS DICK,
(for the Minister of Lands.)

Promotion of Volunteer Officer.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 31st March, 1880.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
make the under-mentioned promotion :-
Wellington Naval Volunteers.
Sub-Lieutenant Robert Bruce Wallace to be Lieu-
tenant. Date of commission, 11th February, 1880.
H. A. ATKINSON.

Justice of the Peace resigned.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 30th March, 1880.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
accept the resignation by
HUGH JONES, Esq.,
of Nelson, of his appointment as a Justice of the
Peace for the colony.
THOMAS DICK.

Member of Licensing Court and Visiting Justice resigned.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 30th March, 1880.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
accept the resignation by
CHARLES HUNTER BROWN, Esq., J.P.,

Resignation of Volunteer Officers.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 24th March, 1880.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
accept the resignation of the commissions held
by the under-mentioned officers :-

I Battery of Artillery.
Second-Lieutenant Frederick Dunn Holdsworth.
Date of resignation, 9th February, 1880.

Napier Engineer Volunteers.
Lieutenant Lawrence Marshall Grace. Date of
resignation, 27th February, 1880.

Christchurch City Guards.
Sub-Lieutenant John Leslie. Date of resignation,
20th February, 1879.

H. A. ATKINSON.

Despatch.—Marriages on board Her Majesty's Ships
validated.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 27th March, 1880.
THE following despatch and its enclosure, received
from Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State
for the Colonies, is published for general information.
THOMAS DICK.

(Circular.)
Downing Street,
12th December, 1879.
SIR,—I have the honor to transmit to you, for the
information of all persons in the colony under your
Government, a copy of an Act passed in the last
Session of Parliament entitled "An Act to remove
Doubts as to the Validity of certain Marriages of
British Subjects on board Her Majesty's Ships" (42
and 43, Vict., cap. 29).

I have, &c.,
M. E. HICKS BEACH.

The Officer Administering
the Government of New Zealand.

"CONFIRMATION OF MARRIAGES ON HER MAJESTY'S
SHIPS ACT, 1879" (CHAPTER 29).

An Act to remove Doubts as to the Validity of
certain Marriages of British Subjects on board
Her Majesty's Ships (21st July, 1879).

WHEREAS officers commanding Her Majesty's ships
on foreign stations have permitted marriages to be
solemnized according to religious rites or ceremonies,
or to be contracted per verba de presenti in the pre-
sence of such officers, in the belief that marriages were
authorized by law to be so solemnized and contracted,
and doubts have arisen with respect to the validity
of such marriages, and it is expedient to confirm the
same:

Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's Most Ex-
cellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent
of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons,
in this present Parliament assembled, and by the
authority of the same, as follows:-

1. This Act may be cited as "The Confirmation of
   Marriages on Her Majesty's Ships Act, 1879."